Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-01-26

sne would lose her way. but, she argued,
unless she went ont and about, and did
lose herself occasionally, how was she
ever to find her way at all? His hours
were irregular and strange. He was out
mostly at night, but not always; some
times he had friends to see him on bust
ness-politicaI business, he said, and they
spent the night with him and spirits and
water and tobacco in the back parlor, the
shutters OF which were fastened.
After he had been out all night, he
slept all day.
Trip was surprised at the amount of
coal ash which was left in the CRATE in
the morning, after the party of pollti-
clans had sat up all night. She asked her
husband how they had come to consume
so much and put the stove in such
mess He turned off her question with
jest. that as they were all Liberals they
had dealt literally with the scuttle.
One morning, when in his room that
looked out on the back premises, Trip
found in the drawers a plan. She looked
at it carefully and curiously, and was
surprised to find that it was a plan of
Ringwood han. She was convinced that
il was so, all the rooms were arranged in
the same order as those OF the hall. She
took it 10 her husband.
This is Ringwood," she said.
He started. Where did you find it'
What have you been about?'
Il found it in the back room. What
is it for2"
"Oh, took it when shown over the
pace | said then it was for building
purposes.
But you are not building in Glouces-
tershire, you have no Worcestershire
property"
who told you that How clever you
are. | intend to build some day, SO keep
the plan by me.
THAT is not the plan you drew That
was in your pocket book"
"Well-I made a clean copy on paper.
Look here, Trip! l will not be spied on
and cross-eXamincd. l give you fair
warning, l will not allow it, Mischief
will come of it..
Trip soon perceived that she was
watched by the woman who did all the
house work, when her husband was
away. This woman was clearly initiated
into the secrets of her master, secrets
which were kept from herself the wife
This made Trip jealous and suspicious.
She particularly disliked this maid, who
had an unpleasant face and was dirty.
be civil to Trip. She viewed her with
maleyoleuce, and was sometimes disobe-
dent. and occasionally rude Trip re-
mOnstratcd with her husband. She said
that she could not endure the woman,
and would not live in the house with her
any longer.
"AIl ri%ht,n answered Mr.. Beaufort,
'Ill give Nelly months warning. Put
up with her for a few weeks, and I'll en-
gage You another. Servants are hard to
get, and we should be in pretty plight
if left without any"
"Oh, let her go!" entrcated Trip. LET
her 90 at once, I will gladly do her work
myself, for the pleasure of getting rid of
her.
"What" exclaimed her husband.
"You work as a mental after having mar
ried me- Not to be thought of for Mrs.
Beaufort"
Trip, who had been so free, was pris-
oner; 50 lively, was now pensivc; so fond
of singing and skipping and talking, now
sat still in her chair with her hands in
her lap, looking at the plain paper on the
wall in front Of her, doing nothing. and
without the heart to sing, and with no
one to whom to speak.
She put on her pretty crushed straw
berry dress and black mittlns and pink
bonnet hCt, and looked at herself in the
glass; then threw away her bonnet on
the be-, cast herself into The chair again,
and THO tears ran silently down her
checks
Poor Trip! She was beginning to find
out thGt She had been deceived in every
thing which she had expected
(Continued Nonda0 .Jan. 3y)